<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Vasudev Kamath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kamathvasudev@gmail.com" target="_blank">kamathvasudev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
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Quoting from multiple mails to avoid storm of mail replies.<br>
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Srikant <<a href="mailto:u.srikant.patnaik@gmail.com">u.srikant.patnaik@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> Hello all, Sorry for late.<br>
><br>
> Here are few updates.<br>
><br>
> 1) We welcome our new member Pranav. He is a engineering student,<br>
> shares the same enthusiasm and passion. I have added him in alioth,<br>
> and he already joined this mailing list. Somehow he is unable to<br>
> create account on wiki.<br>
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</div>Welcome Pranav!.<br>
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> 2) I have created a minimal lxde-core image, with Wifi/touch and basic<br>
> utils. I have no idea how to host it on alioth or wiki, so will wait<br>
> for your suggestions. Meanwhile its sitting on my google drive (200MB,<br>
> xz compressed, not tested on other device)<br>
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</div>Interesting. I would like to share some thoughts after I had a<br>
discussion on #debian-mobile a week ago or so. You had asked about DE<br>
environment and it looks like enlightenment does have mobile device<br>
support so we can try that to get a more mobile device like feel. Due to<br>
lack of time I myself couldn't explore this yet.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>We have tried e17 before, it is fast, but mobile and tablet interface had some</div><div>unpleasant corners. Though we don't remember why we switched to LXDE, but</div>
<div>still I personally like to try e18 some time. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>> Interesting. But to be honest I have no interest in the actual<br>
>> image you produced - what I find interesting is the choices you<br>
>> made in producing it: Better if you share source - i.e. the<br>
>> scripts (or other procedures) you used to produce the image.<br>
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> The github link which I shared has the detailed procedure. There is no<br>
> script. I don't feel there is a need too, correct me if I'm wrong.<br>
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</div>I did check the page and I've few comments here. I think you used Ubuntu<br>
to bootstrap this image, there is nothing wrong I'm noticing it because<br>
there is no package called *gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf* yet in Debian. The<br>
cross compiler which can be installed in Debian is only from the<br>
emdebian repo IIRC, I use thibgs repo at [1] and package available there<br>
is *gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabihf*. May be a line suggesting adding this<br>
repo to the sources.lst if people using Debian want to bootstrap this<br>
image is helpful.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I used Ubuntu. I assumed that these packages will have same name in</div><div>Debian too. My bad. Sure I have added the repo information. Would you also </div><div>recommend to use Linaro or Scratchbox ?</div>
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Also let me clarify why Jonas asked about the script, the point is we<br>
should have some way of always able to build things in a automated way<br>
than repeating it every time we want to spin image for testing. Also<br>
Jonas likes preparing image himself ;-).<br>
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Jonas did an effort to generalize this pure blending effort using<br>
boxer[2] which is written using gnumake and due to bugs and due to<br>
rigidity of make we started rewriting it using Perl[3]. Atleast [2] can<br>
still be used directly with some effort and [3] isn't yet ready.<br>
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I'm mentioning about boxer here because I wanted to give idea of what<br>
Jonas was talking about<br>
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(Jonas if I assumed something wrong here correct me ;-))<br>
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[1] <a href="http://emdebian.org/~thibg/repo/" target="_blank">http://emdebian.org/~thibg/repo/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/boxer.git;a=summary" target="_blank">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/boxer.git;a=summary</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://source.boxer.biks.dk/?p=boxer.git" target="_blank">http://source.boxer.biks.dk/?p=boxer.git</a><br>
<div class=""><br></div></blockquote><div>Sure. Will make a shell script. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
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> The reason is, U-boot and filesystem we make only once. We change the<br>
> Kernel, that too, only once.<br>
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</div>Here I want to point out few stuffs, I was exploring the feasibiity of<br>
pure blending Debian for Aakash and found few blockers, one such blocker<br>
I've updated on wiki is availability of Alwinner A13 board support in<br>
Debian. Since Alwinner A13 support is not yet mainlined completely by<br>
Sunxi project to Linux upstream we can't expect Debian to officially<br>
provide a deb file.<br>
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i.e. sudo aptitude install linux-image-alwinner<br>
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(PS: I don't have required expertise to carry out mainlining efforts :-)<br>
but if some one can then I'll be glad to help)<br>
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> Is there any tutorial/blog/video on alioth. Also, is there any<br>
> beginner's guide/instructions for debian wiki.<br>
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</div>Are you looking for Alioth help? if so [4] and Debian wiki is moinmoin<br>
software some information which might be helpful is [5]<br>
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[4] <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/</a><br>
[5] <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki</a><br>
<div class=""><br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Thanks </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
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> 3) Is it possible to edit wiki using restructredText or markdown?<br>
> Meanwhile, I have created a branch in our github page<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/tree/debian" target="_blank">https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/tree/debian</a> with steps<br>
> to follow. This page should be converted to debian wiki. So that we<br>
> can all edit there.<br>
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</div>You can simply create a page at<br>
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAakash/Installation" target="_blank">wiki.debian.org/DebianAakash/Installation</a> or something more relevant by<br>
going to that URL. Since that page doesn't exist you will get an option<br>
to create it.<br>
<div class=""><br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Will do that. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
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> 4) Simplified specs of Aakash2 tablet :<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_(tablet)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_(tablet)</a><br>
> Aakash2 hardware is loosely based A13-OLinuXino board. Schematics and<br>
> component details can<br>
> be found <a href="https://github.com/androportal/OLINUXINO" target="_blank">https://github.com/androportal/OLINUXINO</a><br>
><br>
> 5) Manoj is working on gslx680 touchscreen fix, and Sachin is<br>
> exploring LIMA. Both of them are working part-time on these.<br>
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> We will contact Olimex for sure and find out.<br>
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</div>As Jonas said we will be interested in their findings, so if they can<br>
write down it on Debian wiki (preferred) or blog that will be helpful.<br>
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